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> I've never had any issues with it except some VPN-related internet problems. I've had to support a development environment that ran on WSL2, among other thin
by rstuart4133 3y ago
> I've never had any issues with it except some VPN-related internet problems.
I've had to support a development environment that ran on WSL2, among other things. I regularly had developers attempt to start work in the morning only to find an overnight WSL2 update from Microsoft rendered their WSL2 instance unusable. It typically took a few hours of uninstalling / reinstalling to fix it. But in at least one case after a series of these incidents that cumulated in them spending a day trying to get it going they gave up and switched to Ubuntu.
The only reason I'd use WSL2 over a real Linux install for Linux development is because of ISO 27001 / SOC 2 restrictions pushed from above. I don't have a clue why people would do it voluntarily. It's not only a fragile and incomplete implementation (especially on the networking side), it's also noticeably slower.
- Falmarri 3y agoAbsolutely this. It's usable, but just barely, and not even close to a replacement for a real linux system
- CoolCold 3y agoWhile my observation is mostly limited to my laptop and couple of friends, I must day that both of those laptops are on Windows Insider, not even stable branch and I probably can remember couple of minor issues over last 3 years with WSL2, nothing like you described